I reached out to the film’s director, Rod Lurie, to vent my concerns. That process helped us heal, but a bad rendering of the battle would leave us talking about what the movie got wrong instead of what actually happened. Over the years, I have learned that sharing the experience allowed many of us to put our emotions into words. By all quantifiable metrics, my unit won the fight, but at a devastating cost: Eight soldiers died, 22 were wounded and our camp burned to the ground. 3, 2009, when our 53 cavalry scouts fought off more than 300 Taliban fighters bent on overrunning Combat Outpost Keating in Nuristan, Afghanistan. My soldiers and I had been sharing stories since Oct. Army cavalry troop’s war story was being made into a major motion picture, I worried that a Hollywood account of the battle would be inaccurate. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox every Friday. You’re reading this week’s At War newsletter.
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